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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064975.In_the_Beginning_There_Was_Darkness_A_Blind_Person_s_Conversations_with_the_Bible?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="In the Beginning There Was Darkness: A Blind Person's Conversations with the Bible" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/312KK6N05VL._SL160_.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064975.In_the_Beginning_There_Was_Darkness_A_Blind_Person_s_Conversations_with_the_Bible?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">In the Beginning There Was Darkness: A Blind Person's Conversations with the Bible</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8820.John_M_Hull">John M. Hull</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19790197?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>Too much prooftexting, disconjointed discussion. Sometimes a passage was just a vehicle to tell an anecdote or give advice on interacting with a blind person. Not a terribly profound interpretation of texts (sometimes took too much offense to examples of biblical stories involving blindness -- any other marginalized group could do the same thing with the bible). <br/>Never pulls out an overarching theme or implication, so those 'messages' he does pull out are sometimes in conflict with each other. <br/> <br/>And it didn't give me too much insight for my course paper. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/573080?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>